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– After a decade on the City Council, Kshama Sawant has certainly earned moving on. Still, I don’t think if her replacement lasts a decade, whoever they are, that they will be able to point to anything like the minimum wage or renter protection that she has produced.

– Glad we’re renaming some gross things.

– I don’t know what to make of the reporting of deaths in tiny house villages.

Wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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  2. 2

    That’s gonna leave a mark, and possibly a review by the State Bar

    This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim.

    Thirty-one individuals and entities were needlessly harmed in order to dishonestly advance a political narrative. A continuing pattern of misuse of the courts by Mr. Trump and his lawyers undermines the rule of law, portrays judges as partisans, and diverts resources from those who have suffered actual legal harm.

    Mr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions. … As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba.

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    @2 biggest POS in the World! Followed by his supporters and the Repukilan Klan in the US House of Representatives and US Senate.

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    We don’t expect this kind of quality snark from you, Boomer, but we are HERE FOR IT:

    Rep. Bill Foster, D-WI, Harvard PhD, Particle Physics, expert in particle acceleration research, on the Twitter:

    I’m thrilled to be joined on the Science Committee by my Republican colleague Dr. George Santos, winner of not only the Nobel Prize, but also the Fields Medal – the top prize in Mathematics – for his groundbreaking work with imaginary numbers.

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    @4,

    Don’t forget, I was also the first player in history to score over 100 points in an NBA final. And that was back before the rules changed when quarters were only five minutes long and the basket height was twenty feet.

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    2,

    Page 36 of the order may become the highlight of my year.

    Habba should be disbarred for legal incompetence. But that unfortunately isn’t a thing. I’m actually surprised that Middlebrooks hasn’t assigned her remedial education coursework. But it may be that he’d rather she returned to her day job reviewing home purchase sales contracts and notarizing.

    In her initial response to the application her objections to the sanctions were based on a preliminary, unsigned draft of the application. The final draft used different figures for calculating hours and fees. Middlebrooks caught the error and ordered her to revise her response with corrected objections using figures and calculations from the final signed application.

    It isn’t clear from the order what Habba was doing and Middlebrooks seems to have given up trying to help her. But only some of her revised calculations were made referencing the final signed application. Worse however is that she made basic mistakes in her math. Middlebrooks highlights only a few of the basic math errors in his order. But then correctly concludes that her objections can’t be relied upon by the court and have to be set aside and not even taken into consideration.

    The rest of Middlebrooks dismantling of Habba’s response is no less condemning of the quality of her work. But it can’t be over stressed that in responding to an application for fee sanctions the respondent’s objections are the most important. They have to be based on reliable facts that can be clearly demonstrated to the court. And yeah. The math has to be perfect. Which isn’t too much of a strech. It’s addition and multiplication.

    But it should be pointed out that the rest of her response is pretty much hot garbage as well. In deciding such an application the court must also consider not just the hours billed and the math used to add those up, but also the reasonableness of the rates charged. And while Habba makes a point of challenging the reasonableness of the total sums calculated in the application (over $1 million), as well as challenging each and every line-by-line billed amount for both fees and costs. But Habba never even once challenges the rates billed. Not even once.

    It’s very clear that Habba does not understand the important legal distinction between the court’s process considering the claim for defense costs and the reasonableness of those costs. Grossly over simplified, objections are to the line items themselves and whether such costs are directly related (parking fees at the courthouse during trial are okay, parking at Heat games during trial are not). And reasonableness is to the rates applied in those line items ($500/page for photocopying is not gonna make it).

    Free (and probably insane) lawyer not so free. And Republican donors get to pay and pay.

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    In the Roberts Clown Court we learn that SCOTUS uses locally connected printers that cannot log or track document handling.

    What else?

    Thumb drives maybe?
    How about dial-up modems with acoustical couplers?

    🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡

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    @7 I’d really love to see those two go at. I’d like to see each gain an inch only so that the other has to fight back for another inch. Ultimately it would be nice to see Boebert shoot her for real.

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    @7 Those two deserve each other. The rest of us — the voters who elected them excepted — don’t deserve either one of them.

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    @10 What they don’t do is ask any of the justices or their spouses whether they leaked it. I have a couple of suspects in mind who were never interviewed.

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    This morning Trump withdrew another of his frivolous suits, this one targeting targeting NY state AG Letitia James.

    Sanctions work. Middlebrooks has one less shitty Trump LOLsuit on his docket. Aileen Cannon continues to quietly spin her wheels sharpening pencils and curating her Zoom background.

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    @ 9

    Habba should be disbarred for legal incompetence. But that unfortunately isn’t a thing

    Throughout his career, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit found it fortunate that it isn’t a thing.

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    Let’s not forget that less than a year before the 1992 election, Bill Clinton was polling at 2%.

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    13,
    Roberts is too humiliated to directly confront Alito.

    Which tells us all everything there is to know about the Roberts Court. It’s a fucking joke. It has no legitimacy. And he should admit that his own incompetent and fundamentally dishonest leadership has brought the court to this point.

    Under Roberts’ leadership this court has made itself a willing instrument of a political party and offered itself up for sale to wealthy, connected influence peddlers aligned with that political party. Nothing like this has ever happened before in the entire history of the court. It’s really disgusting. And it all comes down to Roberts for failing to act in any kind of timely or decisive manner when he still could.

    It’s too late now. And the only honorable thing Roberts could ever do to restore his personal legacy would be to admit his own failure and resign from the court. And he should be hearing this from every voice from now on. He’s a disgrace.

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    Dude who directed The Bourne Identity has done a documentary on Kavanaugh.

    I would stand in line for this
    There’s always room in life for this

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    @ 15

    Nothing like this has ever happened before in the entire history of the court.

    1. It’s the Court. Not court.

    2.

    In fact, the Roe v. Wade decision itself was leaked to the press in January 1973, when Larry Hammond, a Supreme Court clerk, shared the news with a Time magazine reporter—resulting in the story appearing hours before Justice Harry Blackmum announced the vote. Before that, while the case was still under deliberation, an anonymous story ran in the Washington Post detailing the justices’ debates on the topic of abortion, citing a memo written by Justice William Douglas.

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    13,
    Gotta add, tracking document handling is a basic function in any law office in America these days and has been for a while. Documents are what law offices are about, FFS.

    That it takes this kind of humiliating and degrading exercise for the Roberts Court to wake the fuck up and take the very first baby steps to implement some basic document control is frankly gob smacking to me. And if a tech struggle to implement document security and the steady loss of all their clerks slows the court’s work down for the foreseeable future, that’s a good thing.

    It will require decades for the SCOTUS to recover from Roberts, if that’s even possible. The law itself will heal. But that court might not.

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    @10

    And then they freak out when we suggest replacing the IRS’ NT Essentials networks.

    I can’t even photocopy a document without approval from the district.

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    @5. If the rapist had been elected to the house and voted for McCarthy, he’d be given great committee assignments.
    That’s what is important to “defund social security” republicans.

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    @15 In defense of myself, the term “quack” doesn’t apply to me, nor was I put out to pasture prematurely.

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    @17 Process of elimination. If the law clerks, IT techs, and janitors didn’t do it, that leaves the 9 potential suspects who were never interviewed nor asked to sign a sworn, notarized, written denial.

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    @19 “1. It’s the Court. Not court.”

    That’s a matter of personal preference, like “king” vs. “King,” and depends to some extent on how much respect you have for the institution or, alternatively, how badly you desire to suck up to it.

    Given how the court has been behaving recently, I think you’re going to see a lot less “Court” and a lot more “court” being used outside of the formal briefs.

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    @16

    Unknown Southern Governor with what even his most virulent enemies have to admit is a gift for campaigning.

    Compare to a well known asshole with heavy National name recognition.

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    No no no no no no. I was craving a margarita. Wait, the baby cravings were all Carne Asada. Sorry, I thought I was going to Burning man.

    Elizabeth Holmes made an “attempt to flee the country” by booking a one-way ticket to Mexico departing in January 2022, shortly after the Theranos founder was convicted of fraud, prosecutors alleged in a new court filing Friday.

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    Throughout his career, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit found it fortunate that it isn’t a thing.

    I wasn’t aware that Roger was in private practice by himself.

    Because there is a very good reason why Alina Habba is the “Managing Partner” of a two attorney partnership with only a single associate, none of whom have more than a few years of experience in practice and who operate out of a strip mall. Her “partner” in the firm was passed over and moved along from three other firms never lasting more than a couple of years before washing up with her across the highway from a nail salon.

    I’m guessing her partnership agreement is limited with respect to judicial sanctions. But even still, she’s a sinking ship. And I would not be surprised to see her one “partner” and her one “associate” bail to Rocket Lawyer* in the next month or two. Incompetent lawyers don’t get disbarred. But they do tend to have colorful employment histories.

    *Starbucks baristas are paid more. You have been warned.

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    19,

    Read for comprehension if you ever wish to regain your license to practice, which you’re bound to need the way you are pissing away your retirement on foolish, emotionally driven options fliers.

    Leaks aside, until Roberts the court has never aligned itself with a particular political party, going so far as to openly associate with, carouse with, and even coordinate with wealthy, influential, and well connected associates of that political party. Historically people have always complained about the political leanings of one court or another. But never before has a majority of the court so openly engaged with the leadership and the influential membership of a party with such regularity or such purpose. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, are openly and crookedly in bed with Republican, conservative PACs and consultants. We still don’t know who paid off AJ GangBang’s gambling debts. And ACB is just getting started. Five members who aren’t just taking the dirty money and gifts but who are coordinating their cases and decisions with Republican aligned private groups.

    Having failed to intervene in a timely fashion Roberts is entirely to blame. The Justices use of lavish travel perks, and other benefits when traveling and speaking at universities and law schools has been extensively documented in the past. And though the court claims the justices voluntarily follow the federal judicial code of ethics in all such matters, discrepancies, oversights, and omissions have become common place under Roberts.

    But now we have private PACs and fundraising groups aligned with the GOP and GOP lawmakers not merely socializing with a select group of justices but coordinating policy with them. Because Roberts made it so.

    It’s a corrupt court. There’s little point in denying it now.
    And so it’s up to lawmakers to take the steps necessary to restrict and limit the court’s influence until such time as it can be cleaned up, if that time ever comes.

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    @ 27

    Compare to a well known asshole with heavy National name recognition.

    Yeah, FLOTUS followed by US senator and SOS made her a household name by the time she ran the second time.

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    A night of rage is threatened by Antifa in Atlanta, as we speak.

    Antifa gets upset when police shoot back.

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    A Sudanese refugee working in a pork processing plant was fired by his supervisor, but HR told him to finish his shift, and he did as he was told. Police arrived and, seeing a company-issued band cutter in his hand, shot him dead. Another worker was fired for recording the incident on his cellphone. The remaining employees on the shop floor who witnessed the killing were told to keep working. They also were “asked” to sign a false incident report.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/20/oklahoma-pork-plant-seaboard-foods-chiewelthap-mariar

    This is why America needs unions and doesn’t need police immunity.

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    A Sudanese refugee working in a pork processing plant was fired by his supervisor, but HR told him to finish his shift, so he did as he was told. Police arrived and, seeing a company-issued band cutter in his hand, shot him dead. Another worker was fired for recording the incident on his cellphone. That worker alleges employees on the shop floor who witnessed the killing were told to keep working and “asked” to sign a falsified incident report, which the company denies.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/20/oklahoma-pork-plant-seaboard-foods-chiewelthap-mariar

    This is why America needs unions and doesn’t need police immunity. However, for now all these workers have is tort lawyers and civil juries who, with proper instruction, will know what to do.

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    @ 31

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit doesn’t know there’s video that shows the dude advancing on police with a “not-a-band-cutter” object in his hand, causing them to retreat and pull out a Taser.

    The Taser was ineffective. He kept advancing with apparently an object that police thought was a knife. He was shot. He deserved to get shot.

    The existence of this video is why all the news on this is 5 days old. Once the video surfaced it’s a memory-hole story, like every other story in which “witnesses” claim the victim was unarmed and angelic, until the video clearly shows that the victim was armed and was the aggressor. To everyone but Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

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    @ 31

    This tweet calling the weapon a box cutter knife is from a Guardian labor reporter, whose name did not end up on the byline of the article Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit shared.

    Michael Sainato
    @msainat1
    Police claimed in a press release the worker was armed with a knife, but the worker who took this video claimed all he had was a small box cutter knife used in the packing section, which the worker can be seen holding.
    6:08 PM · Jan 16, 2023

    I suppose that at some point The Guardian editors decided that an objective statement that the dude possessed a deadly weapon would make it difficult for asswipes like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit to portray him as blameless.

    The 9/11 terrorists did quite well with box cutter knives, as I recall.

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    Unknown Southern Governor with what even his most virulent enemies have to admit is a gift for campaigning.

    Compare to a well known asshole with heavy National name recognition.

    Bob is a dumbfuck….grasps for straws, lies, he always find a silver lining around the shpere of shit of his denial, who can’t handle the truth.

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